Carbon Couple Back In Court Over Dogs Courts

May 29, 1985|The Morning Call

Carbon County Judge John P. Lavelle will hear testimony at 11 a.m. today to determine if a Towamensing Township couple acted willfully in disobeying a 1981 court order limiting the dogs on their property to five.

Donald and Frances Snyder of Palmerton R.2 were found in contempt of court by Lavelle several weeks ago after he heard testimony from Paul Macsay, one of the neighbors who filed the original complaint against the Snyders, that about 25 dogs were on the property in February and again in April.

The Snyders contend that they have more than five dogs but board all but five of the animals at any one time.

In 1981, the Snyders were ordered by the court to get rid of all but five of their 60 dogs and clean up their property of dog waste and offensive animal odors.